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xxiE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1W7. NEILL AND SMALL HAVE A CONFERENCI OVERJIG STRIKE Lengthy Discussion Takes Place at Fifth Avenue Hotel. New York, Sept 7.—United States Commissioner of Labor Charles J. Nelli and President Sylvester J. Small, of the Comemrclal Telegraphers’ U" on, were In conference several hours to day at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. It was understood that Mr. Neill had Infor mation of Importance concerning the strike of the telegraph operators and hod called In Mr. Small to discuss the matter. COAL HAS TAKEN IL "BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF THE 60 S” of * n *L < ' F S UP / J ear# ^ Capitals” talks first to The Georgian about hia current social history d h j rr li Confederacy. Very many noted Georgians appear in It. Stephens, Hill, Toombs, Gordon, Campbell, Randall, Augusta Evans, John Forsyth and others among the number. The same thin* hap pened last year, and the prediction Is It will be repeated In 1908; Some of the new prlcea per ton are: Anthracite $9.00 Furnace coke 7.00 Monterallo Blue Gem.. Bine Jellu co 0.60 100 6.60 ... » 6.00 Alabama coala, about 6.00 Vartona cauaea, not the leaat of which la a desire ou the part of the mtnee to make more proflta, are bettered to be responsible for the Increase In the coet of fuel. At the mines the price Is shout 75 cents higher than last year, but the retail dealera state that ther made only a 60-cent advance. labor. Increased demand, de- In coal aunply with corresponding In in tho difficulty of mining. shorts*! i and fi*hta among the railroads arc crease crease of cars omong the reasons given as to why cool has fare of the Loulsv: coal :hlng 1 to th< o retailer. The Southern owoa while the Louisville nnd Nashville holds a similar position In Louisville. The Lonlavllle and Nashville refuses to switch competing freight In Loulavllle and the Southeru charges 36 cents per ton for switching from Ix>u!svllie and Nashville tracks in Atlanta, while for other roads the cost Is only )2 per car. The dealers who buy coal from mines located on the Louisville and Nashville but have their Atlanta yards on the Southern must pay 3S cents per ton for switching or about $15 per car. Generally when corporation! fight the omer, wuue mu pn and In the middle. STRIKE BREAKERS Pittsburg, PA, Sept. 7.—“Every per son In the Western Union Telegraph Company’s building will have to submit to vaccination If they have not under gone euch an operation recently,’’ said Superintendent Edwards, of the bu reau of health, this morning. The order was Issued as the result of a case of smallpox being discovered laet night, the victim being Lyelo Morris, a line repairer who worked In the main office. Superintendent Edwards decided to vaccinate every person In the building who needed such an operation as a preventive to the spread of the dis ease. The building will be fumigated, but not quarantined. Morris Is said to have a mild ease. STEVE ADAMS’ TRIAL IS UP NEXT WEEK Wallace, Idaho, Sept. 7.—The trial of Steve Adam* for the murder of Fred Taylor will probably begin thle com ing week. Clarence Darrow, accom panied by Charlea H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, I. In town preparing for Adams’ de fense. The last trial resulted In an equally divided Jury. By JANE MEADE LEWI8. ‘i, 1,3' c * DeLeon, the author of some wwll-known histories nnd romances of the Confederate past, has been gpend- .»• aummer In the hidden recesses °f * ho Cumberland plateau, reading proof and putting final revision to his "Belles, Beaux and Brains of the 60s." , *£• , De Pl?. n ha * be * n Peculiarly ret icent In telling the press anything of his plans or Intent In writing the book during the eight years since he first blocked It out In Atlanta. When living in Atlanta then he mentioned the Idea to General Gordon, Miss Wallace. Gen eral Walker. Major Charles W. Hubner and a few close friends, and he now says It was mapped out. arid his first real work begun In the Young Men’s Library and In his "den” opposite, at 11 Cone street. Since then, fieetlng paragraphs have traveled that the busy author had gone totally blind, had ed ucated himself to mastery of the type- writer, and that he was giving every hour left by his current magazine and Journalistic work to a "now novel" of Southern life In war days. This was all, until Town Topics an nounced on August 1 that It had se cured the advance serial tights o “Belles, Beaux and Brains of the ’60’s.‘ From that announcement It proved what “novel” the work was; but only in the sense of newness of theme and treatment of so much of the Confeder ate social story as “Four Years In Rebel Capitals" had left untold. Se quel to that well-remembered book, It Is not, but It treats of persons and their actions—their society and social Impress upon the time; their descend ants, and their social, literary* and public status, as no other book yet at tempted by any pen has done. Still there was no advance noticing of this book. Mr. DeLeon positively declined to be Interviewed about It, and only now hae The Georgian been enabled to give Its readers everywhere the raison d'etre and scope of the new Southern book, and especially some what of Its mention of noted people of our state, living and dead. What the Blind Author 8ayt. “No, I have not been Interviewed about the book. I preferred to let It Interview the public for Itself. The author who speaks prematurely of his work Is apt to sow dragon's teeth of expectancy which spring up Into a dangerous crop of armed criticisms. The story of Cadmus Is philosophy: not fable.” Thus spoke Mr. DeLeon when asked If he had given out anything for print regarding hie work. "Any book that can not tell the reader all about Itself, as he runs, is a waste of paper and Ink to print; and It Is wiser to tell the runner, as he reads, than to stand at the cross roads of business and leisure nnd hulloo to him to stop running and read. Hence, I have not borrowed the horns of Jericho to blow down the walla about the ’gen eral reader.’ I Infinitely prefer the par ticular one. who gets over the wall for himself and reads In preference to be ing told what Is written for him. ’Now, however, that the book Is ap pearing In precedent serial form, It Is ileasant to talk to The Georgian about t, for several reasons. First, It was blocked out In Atlanta, when I lived there In 1397-'99, Just before the attack of nervous prostration that lost me my sight, and nearly my life. Then I spoke to some old friends, who felt kindly to 'Four Years', of an Idea that had been In my mind for many years. I had almost said ’always;' certainly ever since I wrote the former book In 1865- 66, and printed It serially, In The Mobile Sunday Times In the latter year. • • • An Unfinished Picture. “That book endeavored to picture the results of the war, ft» It progressed, upon the temper and characters of the massed population; of their reaction upon events, In the descensus Avernl of high hope and confidence to the Acheron pit of desolation and moaning. In that book was neither room nnr place for personal actions or Impresses of them upon the time, save In typical and essential coses. So the ‘Four Years' left a blank In the picture os to the social side of Dixie; Its beautiful and Immortal feminine heroes and Its gal lant and dashing knights and lovers— as much at home In the drawing room and the dance as In the Bring line, or the charge. “Rightfully or not, I believed I could All this gap, somewhat adequately. I noted the Idea to General Gordon, Gen eral WllllAm S. Walker, Miss Anne Wallace, gallant and tender Charles Hubner, Wallace Reed and a few oth ers. Their approval encouraged me to block out the plan and scope of the work. In the winter of 1898-69, when working ‘day nnd night shifts' upon the ’ll font blen' of the average Amer ican scribbler. “Then comes the collapse that comes from burning my candle at both ends, while trying to light It In the middle; CHAUFFEUR LOSES LICENSEJ COURT Tracy Eining Appears Li Police Court For Third Time. T. C. DELEON. Author of “Belles, Beaux and Brains of the ’60’s.’' Hasty Nervous Chewing of Food the Cause of Dy spepsia If your teeth are fit, chew, chew’, chew, until the food is liquid and insists on being swallowed. If teeth are faulty, soften Grape-Nuts with cream or hot or cold milk and allow to stand a minute soaking. “There’s a reason” as fol lows: Grape-Nuts food is in the form of hard and crisp gran ules, intended to be ground up by the teeth. That work not only preserves the teeth but brings down the saliva, so necessary in the primary work of. digestion. Many people say (and it is true) that when they eat Grape-Nuts they seem able to digest not only the food but other kinds which for merly made trouble when eaten without Grape-Nuts. Chew!! “There’s a reason” for but the work wae really blocked out and aomc of It written from memory aolely In the Young Mep’a Library on Cone etreet, and In my den at Mrs. Phillips’ hospitable home, Just oppo site. In Five Years’ of Blindness. "The toll, anoyance and InAnlte cor respondence Involved In Its completion, since I lost my sight and had to be re-educated Into life In the night, need not bore your readers. The elder D’lsraelll wrote ’Calamities of Authors.’ On our cIs-Atlantlc side, experience tells me, these are an InAnlte bore to everybody, save the calamities them selves. Suffice It that, after Ave years of pretty steady labor. In the course of which 1 bored some thousand of friends for data, biography, lineage, experience and portraits,.I have verl- Aed the dictum of our magnanimous victor and ’have robbed the cradle and the grave’ of aoclal, helpful and offi cial Dixie of a few new things, and have tried to tell them simply and hon estly. I have not alined to write a ‘great work.’ The subjects were, very often, so much greater than the han dler that he. has felt himself over weighted and they have been left to tell their own story by Its bare re cital. “On the other hand, I have not failed to Introduce a few new fac's of then current hl tory, When It had been dis torted by Intent or haste. I have also made possible some deduction from the acts of men and women who, In some sort, held the Confederacy In the hol lows of their hands. I have—without endeavoring to do so, but In ‘my stride’ as It were—corrected some error* of lineage, personality, action and result which had crept Into some precedent books, somewhat along the lines of "Belles and Beaux,’ though nowise like It In Intent. Georgians Mentioned. You ask If I mention any Georgians, a book touching any side of the Confederacy's life omission of them had been to leave the dismal prince out of the Swan's ’Hamlet.' The Empire State of the Confederacy was as potent a factor In all three components of my book—belleshlp, beaudoin and brain— aa waa even the presidential mother herself. The ’Cracker’ giants, who stalk across the page of carmine, silver and black, on which Is written the story of the war, loom grand and glgnn- teaque agalnat Its now gray back ground. And—happily, or otherwise—I was reared, educated nnd cut my ger- man-leadlng teeth In days of early dudedom at Washington city. That waa at a time when the sections were iry throes of the earth quake that soon rent them asunder. My brother, Hon. Edwin DeLeon, edit ed The Southern Press, In partnership with Ellwood Fisher, nnd It was the official mouthpiece of the Southern sen ators, at the moment when Roger A. Pryor launched The Herald and Bev erly Tucker The Sentinel. There I rsonal knowl- The Register and The Sunday Times, In the latter of which the "Four Years” ran for many months In the Sunday edition. Now, over four decades later, the same publisher, In a far different en tourage, has secured the sole serial right to the cognate work* of the now matured and blind author. JANE MEADE LEWIS. Monteagle, Tenn., Sept. S, 1907. For the third time In a little over two months Tracey L. Eining. living at 220 Lee street, was In the recorder’s court Saturday, charged with violating the automobile ordinance. This time he was charged with reckless driving on Whitehall and Decatur streets, and he was Ancd $25.75 and hia license revoked for sixty days. Patrolman Sweeney told the court that on Friday Eining, who drives a big touring car, passed the corner where he Is stationed at least ten times, always at n rate of speed which the officer deemed dangerous. He esti mated the speed at from 15 to 25 miles an hour. "Several times I lifted my stick to warn him to go slower, but he paid no attention to me. and once he nearly ran me down when I stepped In front of his machine," said the officer. "He would come whirling down from the via duct nnd around the corner without any whistle or gong. The last time before I served hint with a subpena he certain ly was going over 20 miles an hour. I shouted at him a* he went by and he turned around and smiled at me." Eining denied that he was going over eight miles nn hour at any time, and said he always slowed down In going around the eomer In question. Dr. Baskin, acting recorder, asked him lot of technical questions regarding the horse power, gears and speed clutches on the car, much to the amusement of some of the policemen. At the conclusion of his examination, Dr. Bsskln assessed the Ane and revok ed Elnlng'a license for two months. A few weeks ago Eining w*as charged with not having the proper lights on his machine and was Aned. On July 8 he ran down an old man and hurt him seriously. This case Is still pending against him. A Pitiful Sight. TV L - -- - Morbus, end Dysentery, Flux. etc. Hold by all Druggists, 25 and 60c bottle. NEW ANDREWS BUILDING A MODEL OF ITS KIND COLONEL WALTER ANDREW8’*NEW BUILDING. Established 1865 Eiseman Bros. The Old Reliable Manufacturing Clothiers STORE WILL BE CLOSED MONDAY, SEPT 9th, ACCOUNT HOLIDA Y HE opportunity to buy excel lent School Shoes at Bar gain Prices will be continued next week, These medium-weight suits are splendid values, and particularly adapt able to very late Fall wear. Eiseman Bros. 11-13-15-17 Whitehall Street ATLANTA Baltimore, Md. Washington, D. C. happened to gain personal know THREE—BELLES AND BEAUX— PROOF TO GOODWIN edge of the time's giants—and person ally to meaaure some of Its pigmies. There I Bret saw and heard Toombs, Hill, Colquitt and many another. Dur ing the war—from the night of Lin coln's Inauguration, when I bore the Grape-Nuts ter, through the viler struggle of reconstruction. I was the colleague at the editorial desk of The Register of another great Georgian, John Forsyth. From childhood I hod known Intimate ly the family of another grand son Georgia loaned to Louisiana and the world. Justice John A. Campbell. Vice President Stephens had noticed me In boyhood and not forgotten me In Dixie, and gallant Pierce Young’s Intimacy at Montgomery and until his death gave me Ideas of the Southern hero of ‘Cre ole and Puritan.’ Of each and all of these and many another my running atory speaks, and If John B. Gordon shines meteor-llke across my page, above some others—well, there was and Is glory enough for all. The ladles— bless them!—well, they are never cu rlous and can read for themselves.’’ To Appear in Beok Form. Aaked when the "Belles and Beaux" would appear ae a book. Its author said that men who crossed bridges be fore reaching them sometimes remain ed on the hither side permanently. The serial will run In Town Topics about the holidays, and will then go forth In a handsome volume. He would not •ay who would publish that, as there were several offers pending, and there wae ample time to decide. Mr. DeLeon noted the curious coin cidence that "Four Years In Rebel Cap itals" had Arst been printed In a paper owned by Colonel W. D. Mann, now owner and editor of Town Topics. That retired Federal colonel had moved to Mobile, bought much property and The day of the sweat shop In Atlanta Is past If a few more Atlantans Invest their money In the same manner as Colonel Walter P. Andrews. While many have been spending thousands upon thousands upon apart, ment houses for residences, Colonel Andrews has invested a fortune In nn apartment house for manufactnrers. And as a result Atlanta now has a building that Is the only one of Its kind In Atlanta and one of the few in the entire South. This new building has Just been com pleted at the corner of Marietta and West Cain streets and It Is one of the most substantial In the country. Not only Is It built In a manner pleasing to the eye, but In It are the beat of mate rials and no expense has been spared to make It ao as to take care of heavy loads on eaeh Aoor. The building Is one of the Inrgest In Atlanta and each Boor Is a factory In Itself. Firmness and Strength Is every where apparent. Heavy beams and girders there ay In abundance, and these are able to ably support an) weight which will be put upon them. The front of the building la of pressed brick and the front walls are two and one-half feet thick with walls of twen- ty-Ave Inches on the sides. Instead of letting out the contract for the building, Colonel Andrews decided to build It himself. The plans and speclAeatlons were made by Architect John C. Battle. Then Colonel An drews engaged Charles W. Barnhardt, an expert builder and president of the Atlanta Federation of Trades, as su perintendent of construction. Union labor was employed throughout In the construction of the building and no ex. Such buildings are common In New ron*e was spared to make It the best York, but in Atlanta the Idea Is new. and most substantial that money The building Is four stories high with basement, and each Aoor Is so ar ranged as to be a complete shop In It self for a light manufacturer. The building extends back to Wal ton street and Is surrounded on all Bides by windows, an alley being on the east side. On the Arst Boor there are Ave stores In front with glass en trances equal to any on Peachtree street. Each store is 19 by 80 feet and Is equipped In the most modern man ner. Back of the stores on the Arst Aoor there Is still left for manufacturing purposes 7,060 square feet. The base ment and the other three Aoor* each have 16.500 square feet of space. Each Aoor Is entirely separate from the others, the same as an'apartmen 1 In a dwelling, and Is so arranged that employees or visitors to one will not Interfere with the others There Is an entrance at the front of the building In Marietta street where visitors may take a passenger elevator to any of the Boors. Each of tile Aoor* Is equlppped with a vestibule where passengers may alight. In the rear there Is another entrance where employees may enter, and still another leading to n freight elevator where goods may be received and ship ped. Those on the top Aoor have things Just as convenient as those In the base ment, which Is on a level with Walton street. Fresh Air and Light There Is no lack of windows In the building and such Is the ventilation that there Is always an abundance of fresh air and always a breeze. It Iz possible to rend a newspaper any time during the day In any part of any Aoor. Off from the basement In a Are-proof room Is the boiler which will furnish heat for the building. Each Aoor has Its separate wash and toilet rooms and these are of the most modem pattern. Every convenience Is provided for employees who wilt work could construct. While such a building Is new to At lanta, there Is every Indication that It will prove popular as It has done In New York. Employers realise that while they are getting every conven Irnce, their employees do better work and keep In better health In a building with such sanitary conditions. MEXICO TO CELEBRATE AT JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION. Special to The Georgian. Jamestown Exposition, Va.. Sept. 7.— On the 16th day of September the Re public of Mexico will celebrate the an niversary of her Independence by a grand celebration at the Jamestown Exposition, and this event gives prom ise of being a moat elaborate affair. The Mexican military commission, Mexican military band. President Tucker and exposition officials will greet Mr. I'reel, the Mexican ambas sador, upon the latter’s arrival at Dis covery Landing on September 16. MOURNED FOR DEAD HUSBAND RETURNS; SUES FOR DIVORCE among its parts the two newspapers, In the building, both male and female. Haggard. Special to The Georgian. Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 7.—Like Enoch Arden It the story of one James Quarles, who returned after an ab sence of yean to And hie wife had married again and was living happily with another man. But unlike Arden, Quarles, Instead of going quietly away, proceeded to make his presence known and have a stormy Interview with his wife. Then he proceeded to chancery court to seek advice. The couple were married In South Pittsburg, Tenn., In 1991. A few months later Quarles went West to seek a fortune. In 1904 his wife heard that he had been killed In Oklahoma and she married one O. W. WEST POINT JOINS IN FIGHT ON RATE The Atlanta and West Point railroad through Its attorneys, Dorsey, Brew ster, Howell ft lleyman, has Joined the ranks of the roads seeking to have the recent circular of the railroad commis sion reducing passenger rates annulled, The petition was Bled Friday after noon In the Federal court and a similar petition was Bled with the clerk of the Fulton county superior court. The petition recites the history of the road and said that when the I-cent rate woe put In force It wee unreason able, but admits that Increased traffic and population made the rate proAt- able, but not too high. It Is declared that most of the proAt arising from In. creased business was swallowed In In creased coat of transportation. It le also pointed out that antiquated coachee have been supplanted by pala tial care and that the railroad commis sion has Insisted on the purchase of costly and Improved equipment. It Is declared that tho tax valuation of the road as Axed by the board of arbitration for 1907 le $8,679,619 and that the net revenue received by the rood for last year of $212,006.81 Is less than 6 per rent on that Investment. It le alleged that If the 2-cent rate Is al lowed to stand the road will lose $87,- 971.90 this year and that the net reve nue wlH not net 3 1-8 per cent on the tax valuation aa placed by the board of arbitration. The petition further elates that there will be a deAcIt Instead of any earnings on the Intra-atate busi ness. An Injunction restraining the railroad commission from enforcing the circular Is asked. The petition was Bled In the Federal court, as It waa claimed the rate was In violation of the constitution of the United Btatee, In that It was contlscatory. ATLANTA'S OLDEST SAVINGS BANK. OLD SHAKER TOWN FUEL FOR FLAMES Tilton, N. H. t Sept. 7.—The Shaker settlement, which was established here over a hundred years ago, la burning. Help hae been eummoned from a num. bar of placet but there la little hope of saving the village. NOW IN ITS NINTH YEAR, The Georgia Ravings Bank nnd Truet Compnny passed Into Its ninth year on September I, and It Is with pleasure that we call attention to tho accelerated growth of the * bank With each succeeding year. We .desire to. cordially thank our mnny depositor; for their accounts and for the many ? ood things they have said to their rlends about us. Our oAlcers and di rectors have worked untiringly along conservative lines to make tills one of the safest and best banks In the state, and we have aided hundreds of people to save their money that have hereto fore spent It. We had on deposit September 3. 1900 $ 43.894.20 September 8. 1901 75.628.50 September 2, 1902 101.023.36 September 3, 1902 150.8)7.31 September 3. 1904 215.967.34 September 3, 1906.. 246.05s.:,, September t. 1906 285.243.48 September 3, 1907 336.854.30 These deposits come from all classes —from mechanics, brickmasons, car penters. mailmen, street car men, rail road men, bookkeepers, stenographers, business men, manufacturers, capital ists and from every known vocation. It Is, Indeed, a busy sceno to see the working people line up on Saturday afternoons from 4 to 6 o’clock to de posit a portion of their week’s earn ings. It only takes tl to open an ac count and 4 per cent per annum inter est Is paid and compounded January and July. You have see nthe sign In large golden letters. SAVINGS BANK, on corner Broad and Alabama streets. Out of town depositors can remit by mall. Call or write for a circular. JAPAN SHY OF WAR, SAYS CHINESE EDITOR Washington, SepS. 7.—That Japan will not make war upon the* United States Is the opinion of Stsao, editor of the South China Dally Journal. He said; "Japanese statesmen are quite clever end they know Japan could not carry on a struggle with the American na tion. Japan Is fL poverty-stricken country as compared with the United Btatee. She might seise the Philip pines In a hasty struggle, but In the end there would be but one outcome, victory for the United States." 4% Interest Compounded, Allowed In Our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT On and After January 1,1907 TH E NEAL BANK E. H. THORNTON, President. W. F. MANRY, H. 0. CALDWELL, F. M. BERRY, Vice President Oubier. Ais’t Owhier.